Mustafa Zihni Pasha

Mustafa Zihni Pasha
Personal details
Born	1838 Sulaimaniyah
Died	1911 Constantinople
Nationality	Kurdish
Political party	Committee of Union and Progress
Religion	Islam

Mustafa Zihni Pasha was a high Ottoman official who held a number of ministerial posts and a founding member of the nationalist Kürt Teali Cemiyeti society.

Early life

Mustafa Zihni Bey was born in 1838 in Sulaimaniyah a town in the Mosul Province of the Ottoman empire. He was the nephew of a Kurdish Baban prince. He lived on his estate in Constantinople with his three sons, Ahmet Naim Bey, Ismail Hakki Bey and Huseyin Shukru Bey.

Posts

• President of the Council of State
• Minister of Commerce and Public Works^[1]
• Vali (governor) of the provinces of Hijaz, Ioannina,^[2] Adana^[2] and Aleppo^[3]
• Member of the Ottoman chamber of notables
• Chief of naval operations
• Head inspector of the army
• Sultan's special representative to Crete
• Chief secretary (Mektupcu) of the Baghdad Province
• Sub-governor (Mutasarnf) of Burdur, a sanjak within the province of Konya

Mustafa Zihni Pasha's house in Constantinople

References

1. ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events: Embracing political, military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry, Volume 6, D. Appleton and company
2. ^ ^{a b} The Danger Zone of Europe Changes and Problems in the Near East, Henry Charles Woods
3. ^ The Fortnightly, Volume 61, Volume 67, Chapman and Hall, 1897

Persondata
Name	Mustafa Zihni Pasha
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1838
Place of birth	Sulaimaniyah
Date of death	1911
Place of death	Constantinople